| alveolar echinococcosis in the zoological garden basle. | alveolar echinococcosis (ae) is a rare, but potentially severe zoonotic disease caused by echinococcus (e.) multilocularis. recent findings indicated an increasing importance of ae for non-human primates living in regions endemic for e. multilocularis. the death of five cynomolgus monkeys (macaca fascicularis) and a lowland gorilla (gorilla g. gorilla) due to ae raised concern about the incidence of this parasite in the basle zoo. consequently, a project was initiated to investigate the prevalen ... | 2005 | 16315852 |